Richard Dawkings – The root of all evil.

[FreeThinker]

Richard Dawkins is truly an amazing human being. Sometimes people can mistake his passion for arrogance, but I wholeheartedly disagree.

 

Root of all evil resembles an adventure through fairyland; Magic water that cures people, Flying Goddesses, Communication with supernatural beings etc. In fact, if I did not read the title of the film, I would have called it Richard Dawkins in Wonderland.

 

In all honestly the program presented no strong argument against religion (the sort we are used to with Dawkins). There were no deep analogies as we saw in the Blind Watchmaker. There was no need for that. The religious representatives interviewed by Dawkins did not know the basics of Evolution. Pastor Ted, a close advocate to George Bush and the leader of the leader of Evangelicals, argued that ‘eye’s and ears appeared by accident’. One can not help getting irrigated by their sheer ignorance.

 

However, Dawkins remains remarkably calm. He is often accused of ignorance, and that was hardly at all seen in the program. All Dawkins asks for is a minute of rationality in the midst of all the fantasy. Science teaches us to ask questions, religion forbids it. If Dawkins is ever accused of arrogance it is only his passion in disguise. When You have someone like Pastor Ted talking about “accidental eyes” trying to argue with Dawkins, who knows the theory of evolution in-side-out, I can not help get irritated. Now who do we have teach our children: someone like Pastor Ted or Richard Dawkings?

 

Before you go criticizing Dawkings, take a second and think about his argument. We have animals that are conscious about the world around them. In the past the best they could do is make up stories about how the world works and how it came to be. The stories were about an even greater being who crated the world. The animals also decided that death was not the end, but that there was life after death. All was perfect, animals were happy. Through time, they discover that through analysis and experiments, the world revealed its secrets. These secrets enabled these animals to create inventions and manipulate certain aspect of the world. The “stories” did not agree with the findings, but the animals found reassurance in their stories. The world has many unrevealed secretes, but the animals decide to stick with the stories because they offer reassurance. Should we continue to live with the stories , or follow the path of scientific truth? Do we remain ignorant or march forward?

 

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